Daily brief for 2018-11-24
ASIA
- North Korea-linked group Lazarus targets Latin American banks
WORLD
- Quebec Dubbed As An Embarrassment After Paying $30,000 To Ransomware Authors
- Adobe Patched A Critical Flash Player Vulnerability Disclosed Publicly
- News of the Week: November 24, 2018
- North Korea-linked group Lazarus targets Latin American banks
- 42-year-old man Arrested For Hacking More than 2,000 Computers From 50 countries With DarkComet RAT
- New Trojan mining on the Linux will steal user passwords & removes anti-viruses
ATTACKS
- This week's #RiskAndRepeatPodcast digs into the debate over #WeakPasswords and password reuse, and asks: how much are users responsible for
THREATS
- Quebec Dubbed As An Embarrassment After Paying $30,000 To Ransomware Authors
- Adobe Patched A Critical Flash Player Vulnerability Disclosed Publicly
- MacOS Penetration Test Reveals Three Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
- Powerful Mobile Malware Rotexy Launched over 70,000 Attacks with Banking Trojan & Ransomware Modules
- .@TalosSecurity recently created a #decryptor that helps files affected by the #ransomware #Thanatos -- typically known to not decrypt files
- TA505 Cybercrime Group Experimenting with a New RAT In The Wild
- Researchers at @okta found a bypass that allows #ThreatActors to pose files as legitimate @Apple files despite being #malware and
- 42-year-old man Arrested For Hacking More than 2,000 Computers From 50 countries With DarkComet RAT
- SMBs suffered the brunt of ransomware attacks in 2018
- CVE-2018-19406, CVE-2018-19407: Two DoS vulnerabilities on Linux Kernel
- New Trojan mining on the Linux will steal user passwords & removes anti-viruses
- How has the @DLink #router vulnerability affected your enterprise?
- The Week in Ransomware - November 23rd 2018 - STOP, Dharma, and More
CRIME
- TA505 Cybercrime Group Experimenting with a New RAT In The Wild
- New Trojan mining on the Linux will steal user passwords & removes anti-viruses
POLITICS
- Quebec Dubbed As An Embarrassment After Paying $30,000 To Ransomware Authors
- North Korea-linked group Lazarus targets Latin American banks